A TERROR suspect who is on the run after evading MI5 by disguising himself in a burka is linked to the Al Shabaab fanatics behind this year’s Kenyan shopping mall massacre, it emerged yesterday.

Hours after charges against him for allegedly tampering with his elect-ronic tag were dropped, he entered a mosque wearing Western clothing.

Later CCTV cameras caught him wearing the burka, covering his face and body, as he left a community centre in Acton, west London.

Mohamed’s connections to Al Qaeda-linked fanatics is believed to date back to 2008.

He is suspected of helping terrorists travel from the UK to Somalia and to have been involved in planning attacks, including one intended for the Juba Hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu in 2010.

He has connections with Somali militants Al Shabaab, who killed 67 people at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi on September 21.

As Scotland Yard continued the manhunt yesterday, a furious political row over watered-down anti-terror orders was growing in the Commons.

She was warned about changing the law, she was warned about weakening controls

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper

Mohamed is the second suspect to breach the terrorism prevention and investigation measures (TPim) notice that replaced control orders in 2012.

Home Secretary Theresa May said Mohamed does not pose a direct threat to the public in Britain.

But Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper accused Mrs May of making it “easier for terror suspects to disappear”.

She said: “She was warned about changing the law, she was warned about weakening controls, she was warned more people would abscond – and they have, twice – and still she won’t act.”

Tory former Defence Minister Sir Gerald Howarth taunted Mrs May: “Can you have the burka banned because it is alien to this country and has enabled this man to abscond?”

Nine TPim orders were in force as of August 31. They are less restrictive than control orders and expire after two years. David Anderson, QC, an independent reviewer of terror law, warned this year that TPims could allow potentially dangerous people to be left “free and unconstrained”.